Im new just in case yall was wondering. I was browsing through the forums and notice there was no thread devoted to weird foods. So as the Self-Proclaimed Patron Saint of All things Odd Im starting one. :)

You want weird, here's weird:Lutefisk. Here's what wikipedia has to say on this Scandinavian dish:

Lutefisk is made from dried whitefish (normally ling, but cod is also used) prepared with lye in a sequence of particular treatments. The watering steps of these treatments differ slightly for salted/dried whitefish because of its high salt content.

The first treatment is to soak the stockfish in cold water for five to six days (with the water changed daily). The saturated stockfish is then soaked in an unchanged solution of cold water and lye for an additional two days. The fish swells during this soaking, and its protein content decreases by more than 50 percent, producing its famous jelly-like consistency. When this treatment is finished, the fish (saturated with lye) has a pH value of 11–12 and is therefore caustic. To make the fish edible, a final treatment of yet another four to six days of soaking in cold water (also changed daily) is needed. Eventually, the lutefisk is ready to be cooked.

The only appetising 'food' on the entire website is the Tree Brain. That looks delicious. Everything else can be forgotten.

I've eaten cactus fruit before. I don't know how weird that is, but i'd not done that before. I think it was a variant of prickly pear looking a little like THIS. The fruit was full of seeds, but the flesh itself tasted nice. Damn those spines though; I had to have a few Efes to numb the shock of them:-

More weird food:This is Durian. It's know primarily for two things. One, falling durian fruits kill a few people every year when they hit them on the head. Second, it has an aroma not unlike a truck stop restroom that hasn't been cleaned since the Carter administration. The odor is so foul that people are banned from eating them in many public places.

Of all strange Scandinavian fish dishes, it is astonishing you pick up on that. If you want to play it really scandinavian and really disgusting, you should go for surströmming or scandinavian rotten fish as it is named in english.

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gronank wrote:Of all strange Scandinavian fish dishes, it is astonishing you pick up on that. If you want to play it really scandinavian and really disgusting, you should go for surströmming or scandinavian rotten fish as it is named in english.

I dunno, I think surstromming would possibly be nicer than lutefisk (assuming you can put a clothespeg on your nose). The idea of gelatinous hydroxide-soaked fish does not appeal to me in the slightest

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